Welcome to Workplay: flex to work and play
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Workplay seeks to empower women athletes in football, including AFLW and VFLW players and women in umpiring, to pursue their sporting aspirations whilst developing successful off field careers.
The challenges facing women athletes across codes globally are consistent, balancing work, study, family and sporting commitments. As a professional network, Workplay aims to address these hurdles by equipping women athletes with valuable tools to thrive at every stage of their sporting and professional careers.
Workplay partners with likeminded organisations and individuals to connect women athletes to flexible employment, education, and professional development opportunities.
Together we challenge the norm and push boundaries to change the game for women in sport.
In addition to promoting gender equality within an inclusive and diverse workforce AFLW, VFLW and Umpiring athletes can provide immediate impact and value to your organisation. Women athlete’s in football are highly motivated individuals who thrive in high performing teams and excel under pressure. Many of the skills they possess such as, commitment, communication, leadership, and adaptability translate to a variety of off field positions.
Their success on field requires an ability to take on feedback and refine strategies and skills for better performance outcomes, and whilst these attributes can often be hard to acquire, women athletes in football possess, making them highly employable.
Whilst Workplay supports women athletes in football actively engaged in AFLW, VFLW and Umpiring programs, we’re also proud to support women athletes transitioning from the AFL system. In doing so, Workplay introduces organisations to a diverse candidate pool of talented athletes who hold a varying degree of availability.
Flexible work options are essential to allow actively engaged women athletes the ability to thrive on and off the field and balance the commitments of their sporting and professional careers.
Employment beyond the game also encourages a successful transition into the workforce on a more permanent basis following a player/umpire’s time on field.
Stories and learnings to help AFLW athletes excel at finding the balance between work and play.
Women athletes should be empowered to be their absolute best on and off the field – and that means having access to great career opportunities. Working with John Holland has helped me develop skills and experience in construction and set up an exciting future on projects both big and small. Most importantly, I’ve still got the flexibility I need to train and play my best footy.
Nina has been an incredible addition to the AFL Data & Analytics team. Her passion for data with the added bonus of her knowledge of football has enabled her to have an immediate impact. Despite working with many complicated datasets and new technologies, I have been impressed by Nina’s ability to run with new projects. The qualities required for a professional athlete certainly transfer over to Nina’s role on the Data team – she is always a team player, maintains a positive mindset and she has a strong commitment to excellence. I would highly recommend any future employer to consider AFLW players for their business.
Workplay is a vital platform for us part-time athletes that are working and playing footy at the same time. Everyone needs that external mental distraction so they can refocus on footy when they come back. Workplay enables that – you have your profile, you have a niche, people find you and you’re able to go into the pathway that you can go into and works flexibly for you.
We have an opportunity to be able to grow our skills and excel in a separate part of our lives as well. Workplay creates this opportunity for us and lets companies look at you and your skills and say ‘alright, that’s someone I want to work with.
