§ The result
1 point separates Dayforce and Workday Recruiting AI.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Dayforce edges Workday Recruiting AI by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 57 to 56. Dayforce leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Workday Recruiting AI leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Workday Recruiting AI — Dayforce 42, Workday Recruiting AI 60, on an 18% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 1 criterion 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Dayforce 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 Dayforce is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dayforce | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
3.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.4 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 70 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 65 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 35 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 65 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 56 (F) | +1 | +1.7 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 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 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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