§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads ADP by 8 points.
Workday Recruiting AI scores 56 and ADP 48 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while ADP leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (ADP 53, Workday Recruiting AI 70, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
ADP and Workday Recruiting AI are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only ADP is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
3.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
2.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.2 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.1 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.3 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 70 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 56 (F) | -8 | -7.2 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | ADP | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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