I understand the concept of just how good early go's are but it is not practical to keep people right up to 10pm on an afternoon shift as there is not the traffic to keep sectors split and therefore use these extra bods.
I would be happy to stay at work until 10pm, like you say it is what i'm contracted to do, but there is not a hope in hell the sector would be bandboxed. I would be feet up with 2 strips talking to someone with 2 strips also feet up next to me etc etc.
I have heard in the past, that there was a possibility that atcos would be made to do office type work (emails and stuff) if not needed in the ops room. As you can probably tell from my sometimes dodgy spelling on here, I'm not trained to type on a PC.
Then of course there is the goodwill of being above MUR, which at a guess, 60%???? in the ops room are.
Just who would staff east and capital?
I think it is to be commended that people offered to stay. I am somewhat surprised that people were so willing though.