If my boss comes to tell me that from now on my “productivity” will be measured in token usage rather than actual “production”

Did your boss actually say this, or are you just going off of some memes you saw and think thats something happening often.

Most companies care about getting work done in as few tokens as possible now, developers that can achieve the same results but with less tokens are extremely valuable.

Not only that, but less tokens also inherently means faster.

Any company that is blowing through tokens, without any effort put into training employees how to use the tools better, deserve to fail.