§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Arena Analytics on all 7 criteria.
Workday Recruiting AI finishes 24 points clear of Arena Analytics under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 32 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Workday Recruiting AI leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Arena Analytics leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Arena Analytics 30, Workday Recruiting AI 70, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Arena Analytics
Arena scores job applicants, mainly for healthcare and senior-living employers, on how likely they are to show up and stay in a specific role at a specific location, reroutes and sources candidates it rates likely to be retained, and applies the same outcome models to employee flight risk and internal mobility.
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
Arena Analytics is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Arena Analytics is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arena Analytics | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 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
Arena Analytics 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
8.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arena Analytics 25 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
6.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arena Analytics 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
3.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arena Analytics 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
2.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arena Analytics 42 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.9 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arena Analytics 25 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arena Analytics 28 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -24.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -24 beside that -24.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arena Analytics minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Arena Analytics | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 70 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 60 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 38 | 65 | -27 | -3.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 38 | 65 | -27 | -2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 32 (F) | 56 (F) | -24 | -24.0 |
§ 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 | Arena Analytics | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 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% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Arena Analytics has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Arena Analytics sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Arena Analytics, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arena Analytics last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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