Yep, this has peeved me the whole time. Everyone's been working since we got sent home at the beginning of the pandemic. Calling it "return to work" rather than "return to office" is disingenuous at best and malicious at worst. It's likely a deliberate phrase meant to make it seem like people can't possibly be productive at home/remote with all the newfound flexibility of such an arrangement.
The article does say "return to full-time office work" or "return to the office" and not "return to work."
The article doesn't mention "return to work." The phrasing it uses is "return to the office" or "return to full-time office work."