§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Paycom by 6 points.
Workday Recruiting AI scores 56 and Paycom 50 under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Paycom leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paycom 38, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 59% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Paycom
Paycom is a single-database human capital management and payroll platform whose applicant tracking system automates recruiting with resume parsing, keyword/knockout candidate filtering, automated correspondence, generative job-description writing, and a command-driven AI data-query engine (IWant).
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
Paycom 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 Paycom is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Paycom | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1998 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycom 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
4.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycom 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycom 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.1 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycom 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycom 68 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycom 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycom 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycom minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Paycom | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 70 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 56 (F) | -6 | -5.3 |
§ 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 | Paycom | 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 | Audit reportSources 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Paycom has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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