Reorg Response Window

What is this situation?

Reorg Response Window is the stretch after a reorganization is announced, when the old setup has been taken apart but the new one has not fully arrived. You join calls where leaders say details are still being finalized, while familiar teammates disappear from calendars, project owners change, and your manager can offer only partial answers. A task that was routine last month now needs approval from someone whose role is also unclear. You keep checking internal posts, meeting invitations, and late-afternoon messages because the next update might explain whether your work, reporting line, or team is changing. Meanwhile, deadlines continue, colleagues trade fragments of information, and each quiet day extends the gap between what has changed and what anyone will confirm. You are expected to keep moving inside a workplace whose map is being redrawn around you, much like the blindfolded figure on the Two of Swords, seated between crossed blades with the water behind her and no clear way to see which direction holds an answer.

Why it's not you?

This uncertainty is created by the reorganization process: roles are moved, decisions are staged, and information is released unevenly. Being asked to continue working without a settled map is a feature of the situation, not a personal failure to adapt quickly enough.