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At my last job I used a dummy iCloud account at the system level, but you can log into a separate account for the app store, which was necessary to avoid having to re-buy some apps I depend on.

Just as I was leaving they were in the process of replacing everyone's computer with new ones that were much more locked down.

Yeah about that. That's one of the biggest weirdness in related to Macbooks on a corp environment, why do I need an unrelated account to do basic stuff on an Apple machine

It all depends on how they manage them. You can and should just make a youremail@company.com icloud account. I'm actually surprised that's not the norm so they can take over stuff like activation lock.

I don't use a personal icloud account on my work computer... it's not even allowed lol.

I have a “work personal” Google account for Chrome for similar reasons.