SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia is one of the hardest working nations in the world. It’s also one of the fattest. To pour salt on the wound, Australians take around 3.2 days off work every year due to stress. Throw into the mix the hours spent sitting at our desks and we can gain a glimpse inside the ticking time bomb that is the average Aussie worker.

There is a growing need for companies to create a healthy culture at work. The corporate wellbeing industry has flourished in the past few decades, churning out more research, programs and tools to help businesses keep a lid on labour costs. This all seems reasonable on the surface yet when it comes to forking out the investment for a wellbeing program, how do executives know their dollars are well spent?

Vimcore is a tool developed in the UNSW venture space in 2012 that helps businesses build healthy, more productive workforces. It achieves this in two ways: by allowing employees to support, encourage and recognise one another’s efforts and by incentivising healthy behaviours to drive up participation and engagement rates in corporate wellbeing programs.

“An unwell workplace is uninspiring. It makes sense that people will be less productive and leave at the first hint of a better opportunity. Replacement costs hover around 100-150% of that person’s salary, which is very costly to companies,” says Vimcore’s co-founder Jessica Evans..

“Corporate wellbeing programs are often sabotaged by poor participation rates, costs that exceed the allocated budget and no way to measure the impact of the investment. We want to make it easier and more affordable for companies and their wellbeing providers to build healthy, productive cultures,” says Evans.

Vimcore measures participation and engagement through smart metrics that help the business identify the most engaged and disengaged employees. And with real time data, the company can watch their culture grow from their mobile, tablet or computer at any time and location in the world.

“Businesses need an easy, affordable way to build a healthy, productive culture and to measure the impact of that investment,” says Evans. “Vimcore could be the next step your business needs.”

Vimcore is free to trial for individual users, for corporate wellbeing providers or those who wish to sign up their organisation. Go to www.vimcore.com for more information.

Media Contact: Jessica Evans, Co-Founder of Vimcore,

Mobile: 0421 178 045 | Email: jessica@vimcore.com