Well, if the company stopped trying to be a "world beater" & wanting to take over every Euro ATC agency, things may be different. Oops, I forgot we are the only ones privatised in Euro land after all.
Maybe, if we dropped the "brand value" nonsence, the endless committees worried about litter picking, the endless shuttling of staff between Southampton, Manchester & Prestwick to talk about leadership or recycling, we maybe would not be in this position.
Since the Red Barron took over, non operational posts have rocketed to levels never seen before in this company. The company, IMHO has forgotten why we are here. NATS is now just a commodity, that has to make a "profit" & can be bought & sold at a drop of a hat when it suits.
It now takes 6 people to produce an ATC operational roster, when it used to only require one, in fact it requires 6 people to do almost anything in NATS now, where it used to only take one........and don't even get me started on the wasted man hours required to operate NIBS................The Board have a lot to answer for, whilst the staff are going to pay for their mismanagement.