Last time this happened, large layoff!
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Zombies do not melt in the sunlight. You are thinking of vampires. There is no escaping zombies.
Last time, back on Feb 2015, people rumored those orange cones reserved spots for taxi on laid-off employees who drove vanpool to work. But those were actually for the integrate team from HAL. And the massive layoff had occurred after that.
One advice: just get yourself prepared. Clean your computer, your desk. Take what you can while you are still there. Jump drives, USB drives are great help. Because once you get called into the slaughter room, you are not allowed to go back to your desk. Someone will get keys, purse for you to the slaughter room and escort you out. The remaining personal items will be mailed to your home within 1 week after that.
Back at my time (February 2015), I have to thank to these 3 individuals for give me a hint, so that I had time to be well prepared for my departure:
1) first of all, a very special thank to my weirdo psycho A/C mad cow (or Madame A/C Zombie, depend on when she had a lot of smoke out of her head & nose, or when she climbed up the stair, her nickname was changed). 2 weeks before that doomed day, she started singing out loud, at her cubicle, while people were around, in her native language (remind me of the last song the band played on the sinking Titanic). She was not on her headphones listening music and repeated the lyrics. She just sang out loud. Closer to the doomed day, she sang louder and more often. She only stopped singing 2 day before that doomed day (maybe she found out her Romeo boss could not save her that time too. And she was about to sink with me and the Titanic too). By the way, zombies will be evaporated if sun light hit them. But this zombie will be melted if a little light wind from A/C vent blew her left-over hair on her bald head. You could easily spot her in the winter bubble blue jacket, all year round, even in the summer with the heat as 100 degree F. So, she invented some kind of "air catcher" tool (not fishing tool for completion) for all A/C vents around her cubicle within 1 mile perimeter. That explained why she wore the same unrecognized-color pair of shoes every day in 15 years, to save all $$$ for that huge invention. I was told she filed patent for that invention too. :)
2) her weirdo mate: during the weeks Madame A/C Zombie sang goodbye song for me, her weird mate constantly paced to cubicles around me (maybe to check on what items on my desk that he could loot once I got kicked out).
3). Her Romeo boss: I caught him standing at my cubicle, non-blinking stared at my cubicle. I stood within 7-foot-step distance to observe, until he turned around and saw me, and acted like friendly "oh I don't know you are here".
Their "celebrating" behavior really gave me hint. And I had enough time to prepare.
Good Luck!
Craighead reserved parking actually.
Need to stop wasting money on orange cones and curries
pavlov, thanks for the update