§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Paycor by 16 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Workday Recruiting AI opens a 16-point lead on Paycor, 56 to 40, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Workday Recruiting AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Paycor leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Paycor 25, Workday Recruiting AI 60, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
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
Paycor and Workday Recruiting AI are both filed 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 Paycor is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Paycor | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1990 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paycor 25 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
6.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paycor 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
6.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Paycor 27 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Paycor 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paycor 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paycor 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Paycor 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Paycor
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paycor minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Paycor | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 60 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 35 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 56 (F) | -16 | -15.9 |
§ 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 | Paycor | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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; some documentation or audit rows for Paycor 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 Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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