Using a work email address as a Google account

Just so you know what you're getting: that account won't have a Gmail inbox. You get Drive, YouTube, Docs, the Play Store and so on, but email to that address still lands in your work mailbox as normal. People sometimes expect it to show up in Gmail and think it's broken.

yes, on the sign-up page choose "use my current email address instead" and it'll verify the address with a code. two catches. if your company already runs Google Workspace on that domain it won't let you, or you end up with a confusing conflicting account. and if you leave the job you lose that inbox, so put a personal recovery email and phone on the account now, otherwise you can lock yourself out for good.