Yes and no, it's not a google services essentials but a google workspace aka sheets/calc/drive, account. You might think "but email are essentials for work" an

Yes and no, it's not a google services essentials but a google workspace aka sheets/calc/drive, account. You might think "but email are essentials for work" and I would agree if not for the fact that it's especially branded as a way to use google work tools without uprooting yourselves out of your own current email and force you to use google mail. From the product page, second sentence: Create a Google Workspace account with your current work email address and start using the tools you know and love today with your team. And at the top are the google logo of the services covered, and while google current logos sucks you can't mistake gmail redish blob. I'm not saying this is great, or that you should have paid more attention or anything like that, but that such an offer actually makes sense, even though 1 - it suffers from google branding issue where people see "google" not "workspace" because they change it every couple weeks anyway 2 - it should check if you already have an active gmail on that account and let you know you're probably doing something you don't want to