§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Employment Hero by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Workday Recruiting AI, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 56 and Employment Hero, filed under Screening, on 48, 8 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Workday Recruiting AI: Workday Recruiting AI is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Employment Hero on Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Employment Hero 35, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
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
Employment Hero 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 Employment Hero is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
4.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
4.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 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 -7.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 70 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 56 (F) | -8 | -7.6 |
§ 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 | Employment Hero | 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% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 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 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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