HiBob vs Workday HCM

HiBob

Nothing here proves history is kept rather than overwritten.

Workday HCM

The captured pages list HCM modules and an AI-driven self-service for managing "HR data", but we found no public information on the personnel file itself — no document types or e-signature, no org chart, no custom fields, no effective-dated history. The audit-trail claims I did find sit on the financial-management pages, not on anything describing an employee record.

HiBob

'Payroll integrations' alongside named 'UK payroll, US payroll' is less than the 3-anchor's generic CSV export: no DATEV, no Lohn und Gehalt, no export format, no mid-month joiner/leaver handling anywhere in the evidence. For a German month-end close this is an unnamed promise.

Workday HCM

Certified, bi-directional integrations with named partners — CloudPay, Deel, Strada, PwC — covering 180+ countries is the strongest payroll story in this file, and Germany appears only as "Workday Payroll provided by Strada". The captured pages give different country lists for native payroll, and we found no public information on a DATEV path, on variable pay, absences, mid-month joiners and leavers, or a documented pre-payroll check.

HiBob

A single bullet — 'Time and attendance tracking' — with no vacation requests, entitlement, carry-over or sickness recording evidenced, and not one word on the BAG 2022/ArbZG recording duty. For a German buyer, silence on the legal obligation is the finding.

Workday HCM

Requests, approvals, balances and accruals are evidenced, with a policy and absence plan library, one-click absence reporting, and time tracking named as part of the same platform. We found no public information on carry-over, sickness recording, public-holiday calendars per location, break and rest rules or overtime accounts — and the German working-time recording duty is addressed, if at all, only as generic "adapt to changing legislation".

HiBob

Both a 'Hiring Module' and automated onboarding with per-hire savings claims are named, but the evidence shows no careers page, no structured stages, no rejection handling, and no evidence a hired candidate lands in an employee record without re-entry. Two module names sit between the 3 and 5 anchors, with marketing math doing the work structure should.

Workday HCM

What is evidenced is a sourcing-and-grading AI layer (HiredScore) said to be "integrated with Workday Recruiting", with Teams support for hiring managers and vendor statistics; the applicant tracking itself — careers page, structured stages, rejection handling — is named as a product but never described. We found no public information on onboarding of any kind, and the "unbiased, AI-driven candidate grading" claim is presented without supporting documentation.

HiBob

The privacy policy is real — DPO (PrivacyTeam), SCCs for EU/UK/Switzerland, a controller/processor split — but retention is something you must email support@hibob.com about, no published retention periods or executable deletion, no field-level roles or read-audit, and applicant/employee data goes to Refinitiv World-Check for screening. A signable DPA is nowhere confirmed on the captured pages.

Workday HCM

Retention is stated only as "as long as necessary" with deletion or anonymisation once no business need remains — backup isolation is at least acknowledged — and user rights, Standard Contractual Clauses and a role as controller or processor are listed. We found no public information on a signable data-processing agreement, per-category retention periods, an audit of who read which field, or anything on works-council co-determination; the self-documenting audit trails I did find live on the financial-management pages.

HiBob

US/Israeli vendor group with data 'maintained, processed and stored' across six regions including the US and Israel — that's not an EU-hosting option, it's wherever the vendor puts it — and no published subprocessor list (Google Analytics and Refinitiv surface only as examples inside the policy text). Named safeguards (SCCs, DPF) keep this just off the floor.

Workday HCM

Workday, Inc. of Pleasanton is controller for everyone outside the EEA/UK/Switzerland, with Workday Limited of Dublin as controller only within it; transfers rest on Standard Contractual Clauses and the Data Privacy Framework, and dispute resolution runs through a US body. We found no public information on hosting location, ownership, or a named subprocessor list — only categories of service providers — which is the EU-entity-with-caveats picture with the residency question unanswered.

HiBob

The nav links a pricing page, but the captured page yields only a free-demo CTA — not one number, tier, per-employee price or billing term anywhere in the evidence. That is anchor zero: every price is a sales conversation wearing a URL.

Workday HCM

We found no public pricing information at all — no tiers, no per-employee figure, no billing period, no setup or minimum terms; the only commercial signal captured is a "Contact Sales" invitation. An HR lead cannot compute any part of the annual invoice from these pages.