Only the Novartis Sr. Management knows what is really going to happen. No one at Alcon (even Sr. Management) knows what Novartis is going to do. If your manager is trying to paint a "rosie" picture, take it with a grain of salt, nod your head and agree. Hopefully, Novartis will get rid of the Alcon "bullies" who are at Corp, mostly the directors (dictators) and their direct reports (bullies). Someone should step up and file a class action harrasment suit. A lot of the managers and supervisors do not even have a college degree or say they are "working" on one, on line. They single out 1 or 2 people as their favorites, who are as dumb as a can of rocks to mentor and favor - job security for the manager, I guess. They use the "favorites" to report what is going on within the dept - to be in the "gossip" loop. They will even go as far as upgrading the "favorite" to keep the information coming in....
The sad part is that the managers and supervisors gossip about other employees to the "favorites" - It's almost comical, how sad...
Hopefully, Novartis will be there for all the other hard working people, who want to do a good job and weed out the rest. Novartis has to be better than what we have now!
Good Luck To All!