A somewhat extended version of a gist uploaded by user gekidoslair that adds two new lines of code. New code selects the new object created and adds the creation of the object to the undo stack

CreateEmptyAtRoot.cs

using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;

namespace MWU.Shared.Utilities
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Adds 'Create Empty at Root' shortcut for the GameObject / right-click context menu to create an empty gameobject at 0,0,0
    /// Original can be found here: https://gist.github.com/gekidoslair/359535dd108ce3dfac6b564ad37e42fe
    /// </summary>
    public class CreateEmptyAtRoot : MonoBehaviour
    {
        [MenuItem("GameObject/Create Empty at Root", false, 0)]
        public static void Create()
        {
            var go = new GameObject();
            go.name = "GameObject";
            go.transform.position = Vector3.zero;
            go.transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;
            Undo.RegisterCreatedObjectUndo(go, "Added new gameobject at root");
            Selection.activeTransform = go.transform;
        }
    }
}