§ The result
Dayforce leads Employment Hero by 9 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Dayforce, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 57 and Employment Hero, filed under Screening, on 48, 9 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Dayforce: Dayforce is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Employment Hero on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dayforce 74, Employment Hero 50 — and at a 20% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
Vendor profile
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
§ The record
Dayforce is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dayforce | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 1992 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Employment Hero 50
4.8 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Employment Hero 35
1.3 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Employment Hero 32
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Employment Hero 56
1.1 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Employment Hero 62
0.7 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Employment Hero 62
0.6 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Employment Hero 50
0.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 50 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 32 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 56 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 50 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 62 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 48 (F) | +9 | +9.3 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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