Paylocity Survey Finds AI Saves Recruiters One Full Day Per Week

The Common Question

How much time does AI actually save recruiting teams each week?

The Lesson in This Case

Forty-three percent of HR leaders say AI saves their recruiting teams a full working day each week – a meaningful efficiency gain at a moment when the volume of applications per hire has tripled since 2021. The productivity benefit is real, but so is the friction: four in five of those same leaders are actively managing at least one problem with their AI tools, from bias concerns to compliance risk to candidates they may never see. Senior leaders signing off on AI recruiting budgets should treat this as a narrow-use-case story – the ROI shows up in resume screening and scheduling, not in the parts of hiring that require human judgment.

Originally reported by HR Dive. Read the full story here.