How Abacus Technology Built a 100% Participation Wellness Culture

From launch to full workforce engagement — Abacus Technology transformed employee wellbeing from a company initiative into a daily, team-wide habit in just over two years.

About

HQ

Rockville, MD

Industry

Technology & Government Services

company size

87

Woliba Solutions

Focus Areas

The Challenge

THE CHALLENGE

Building Healthy Habits in a High-Performance Environment

Abacus Technology Corporation supports mission-critical government programs — meaning their workforce is focused, deadline-driven, and often heads-down on demanding technical work. Leadership knew that employee wellbeing couldn’t be an afterthought, but needed a program that could break through a busy, performance-oriented culture and make wellness genuinely engaging.

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Desk-focused workforce

Technical employees spending long hours at computers with limited natural opportunity to prioritize physical wellness. wellness programming.

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High-performance culture

A results-driven team that needed wellness to feel purposeful and connected to performance, not a distraction from it. activities or check-ins.

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Fragmented engagement

No unified platform to track participation, run challenges, or host wellness education across the team.

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Inconsistent habit formation

Without structure and accountability, wellness efforts struggled to become sustainable daily routines.

The Solution

THE CHALLENGE

Seamless, Interactive, and Built for Engagement

Woliba gave Abacus Technology a single platform to launch challenges, track progress, and build a proactive wellness culture — with features designed to make participation effortless and rewarding.

Challenge framework

Seamless challenge launches turned individual goals into team-wide events, driving competitive motivation and consistent participation across 87 employees.

Live & on-demand events

Events attended grew 10x from 2024 to 2025, with 247 ondemand videos watched — giving employees flexibility to engage on their own schedule.

Health Hub & Wellness Hub

A central destination for logging activities, building habits, and accessing wellness content —
keeping employees connected to their health goals daily.

Recognition & community

Peer recognition points built a culture of encouragement — employees celebrating each other’s wellness wins and reinforcing collective momentum.

The Impact

The Journey

Year by Year: Deeper, Broader, Stronger

Abacus Technology joined Woliba in February 2024 and has seen participation, programming depth, and engagement quality grow every year since.

01
FEB – DEC 2024 · YEAR 1

Strong Start: Habits Begin to Form

62% of employees activated and began earning points in their first year, with fitness driving the bulk of early engagement. The team completed 252 challenge entries and 157 on-demand videos, laying the foundation for a wellness habit.
The Health & Wellness Assessment reached a 46% completion rate, giving leadership their first real data on employee wellbeing.

02
JAN – DEC 2025 · YEAR 2

Breakthrough: Programming Expands, Participation Deepens

Active users grew to 69% of the workforce. Events attended surged from 6 to 62 — a 10x increase — and challenge entries climbed to 317. On-demand videos jumped to 247 watched. The Health & Wellness Assessment completion rose to 52%, and wellness activity diversified well beyond fitness into challenges, events, and hub activities.

03
JAN – MAY 2026 · YEAR 3 (YTD)

Peak: 100% Participation Achieved

In the first five months of 2026, Abacus Technology reached 100% platform participation — every single employee earning points. Already 67 events have been attended and 348 challenge entries logged, surpassing all of 2025’s challenge total with seven months still remaining.

Engagement Data

Three Years of Consistent Growth

From 62% active in Year 1 to 100% participation in 2026, Abacus Technology’s engagement numbers reflect a workforce that has made wellness a genuine part of how they work and live.

62%

Active employees in 2024

Year 1 baseline

69%

Active employees in 2025

↑ 11% growth

100%

Full workforce engaged

↑ 48% growth

10 X

Growth in events attended from 2024 to 2025

6 → 62 events

KEY RESULTS

The Numbers Behind the Culture Shift

In just over two years, Abacus Technology went from a strong start to full workforce engagement — with measurable growth across every dimension of the program.

348%

Challenge entries in 2026 YTD — already surpassing all of 2025

↑ from 317 in full year 2025

67X

Events attended in 2026 YTD — on pace to exceed 2025

↑ from 6 in all of 2024

52%

Health & Wellness Assessment completion in 2025

↑ from 46% in 2024

38%

Growth in challenge participation from 2024 to 2025

252 → 317 entries

What’s Next

WHY IT WORKED

Wellness That Fits a Technical Workforce

Abacus Technology’s success came from matching the right programming to the realities of their workforce — and building habits gradually until wellness became second nature.

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Fitness as the entry point

Fitness points drove the majority of Year 1 engagement — a lowbarrier starting point that helped employees build the habit of logging activity.

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Challenges fueled competition

The structured challenge framework resonated with a goal-oriented technical team. Challenge entries grew 38% from Year 1 to Year 2, and are already ahead of pace in Year 3.

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Events became a staple

Attendance jumped 10x from 2024 to 2025 as live and ondemand events became a regular part of the wellness routine — 247 videos watched in 2025 alone.

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Data informed the program

Rising Health & Wellness Assessment completions gave HR meaningful insight into employee health trends — enabling smarter, more targeted programming each year

“Partnering with Woliba has transformed how we approach employee well-being at Abacus Tech. The platform’s seamless challenge launches and interactive features have driven an incredible 100% participation rate across our team this year. Our employees are highly engaged, motivated, and actively building healthier habits every day. Woliba has truly made it simple to cultivate a proactive, health-focused workforce culture.”
Divya Seth, PHR, HR Generalist, Abacus Technology Corporation

Access utilized Woliba to make wellness meaningful and visible across our team. Wi th 48% challenge participation and an average of 10 activities per user, our employees stay motivated and connected — all while making administration

Vanessa Hernandez

Wellness Administrator, Access

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