Having been in operation for almost 100 years Barfoot and Thompson have come from a very traditional style of working.
Branches filled with multitudes of individually partitioned offices for their many salespeople, limiting collaboration and resulting in branch refits coming in at a high cost.
There was a strong desire to reduce build costs for each of the branches and moving from a traditional partitioned office style of working to an open plan style would deliver a significant reduction.
Cost essentially drove the need to move to a more collaborative and agile style of office layout.