IP address change

Hi all! I am new to r/VPN and have limited knowledge on how this all work.

I am from Canada and am planning to travel to Las Vegas for a week but have to log in to work (love work from home). I would not like my work to find out I’m in Vegas (through Gmail location activity). I plan to get a VPN and change my IP address back to my city in Canada

Would getting a VPN extension in Google be good enough to show my IP address as if I am in Canada? does anyone have any problems sending email in google with a VPN extension?

Any help/inout is appreciated, thank you in advance.