Companies Are Now Tracking AI Token Usage as a Productivity Metric

The Wall Street Journal reports that enterprises are beginning to measure employee AI token consumption as a proxy for productivity — a metric that could reshape how companies evaluate tool adoption.

According to a report flagged by @WSJ, companies are starting to track how many AI tokens their employees consume as a way to measure productivity and ROI on AI tool investments. It's the enterprise equivalent of tracking lines of code written — a metric that's easy to measure but easy to game.

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