Unfortunately for now, the staff view is what it is. If that's the way it works for you then that's how you should expect it to work.
I know it's not much of an answer, but there's been little to no work done on the staff view for a long time and we keep hoping for a major re-work. But it would take a major re-work, not just a few bug fixes, to bring it up to modern standards.
Maybe if enough folk fill out feature requests and vote on them....