Openwork
About
Openwork is a staffing agency based in Austin, Texas. It does not sell to sales teams, and its job categories do not include sales roles. It places workers in temporary and long-term jobs for employers. Office and professional placements cover accounting and finance, customer service and call centers, HR, IT and engineering, and administration. Industrial placements cover manufacturing, skilled trades and warehouse and logistics, and it staffs local and travel nurses through Openwork Health. The company traces its roots to 1967 and claims to match candidates 12 times faster than the average staffing firm. Staffing Industry Analysts named it one of the 2024 Fastest Growing Staffing Firms. It lists 13 offices across Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Mississippi.
Openwork’s Story
Openwork began in 1967, when Mary Evins started Evins Personnel Consultants and opened its first office in Austin's Westgate building near the Texas capitol. It was one of very few woman-founded firms in Texas, and it set out to help women find work. By the early 1970s it had more than ten Texas offices, most of them franchises, and had added a healthcare division.
A new family took ownership in 2020. The firm bought Rock Staffing in Atlanta and QS Nurses in Kansas in 2022 and renamed itself Openwork that year. It expanded into South Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi in 2023, and QS Nurses became Openwork Health in 2025. Meador Staffing Services later joined the group.
Values
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What we’d expect selling here to look like
Openwork sells temporary and long-term staffing to employers in manufacturing, warehousing, office and healthcare settings. Buyers are usually plant, operations, HR or nursing managers. Deals tend to be local and relationship-driven, with recurring revenue from ongoing placements.
What it builds, by career stage
- Breaking in
- Entry-level staffing reps and recruiters learn high-volume prospecting by calling local employers and filling urgent orders quickly.
- Building
- Mid-career account managers can grow multi-site clients and expand from industrial staffing into office or healthcare placements.
- Leading
- Leaders can run branch or regional P&Ls and help integrate acquired firms into the Openwork brand.
Where it can take you
This experience carries over to staffing and recruiting sales, workforce solutions, HR technology and B2B services sold to operations leaders.
Questions worth asking
Considering a sales role at Openwork? Ask these in your interview.
- How are branch sales roles paid: on new accounts, gross margin or hours billed?
- How do the company's speed-to-fill claims show up in the sales pitch and in contracts?
- Which regions or service lines, such as industrial, office or healthcare, are growth priorities after the recent acquisitions?