Atco's should do the decent thing and breakaway to allow office staff and other non-op personnel the freedom to accept deals offered by the company that operational staff are perhaps reluctant to commit to.
Despite the fact that any 'breakaway' would be a bad thing, would it not be encumbant on the 'office staff and other non-op personnel' to initiate the breakaway themselves. No one's holding them back, they're not sheep.