§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads UKG by 12 points.
Workday Recruiting AI sits 12 points above UKG under rubric v1.0, 56 against 44, with both filed under ATS-integrated. Workday Recruiting AI leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while UKG leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — UKG 30, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
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
UKG 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 UKG is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | UKG | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
UKG 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
5.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
UKG 48 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
4.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
UKG 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
UKG 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
UKG 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to UKG
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
UKG 56 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.1 weighted points to UKG
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is UKG minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | UKG | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 70 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 65 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 56 (F) | -12 | -11.7 |
§ 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 | UKG | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 2 | — | 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 0 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 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 25 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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