Alto Has Pushed Beyond the Old Ways of Working as Adweek's US Small Agency of the Year

The shop is operating on its own terms, and brands love it

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Angry advertising employees cracking open this Adweek issue might’ve recently wondered why they’ve returned to work at a dusty office building.

Small creative agency Alto and its client Upwork, a freelance marketplace, rooted out who’s responsible for those return-to-office mandates and a career’s worth of burnout. It’s not management or even Don Draper.

It’s some dead white guy.

In Upwork’s “This Is How We Work Now” campaign, a zombie CEO helps businesses realize they should’ve put the 9-to-5 to rest long ago.

“There’s

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This story first appeared in the Oct. 10, 2023, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe.