Director/PDMR Shareholding

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL
RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS

Hays plc (the "Company")

In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4R(1)(a), the Company
hereby notifies you of the following changes in the interests of directors and
persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMRs") in the Ordinary share
capital of the Company.

DIVIDEND EQUIVALENT SHARES

As announced on 18 October 2011, vested elements of awards granted in 2008
under the Deferred Annual Bonus Plan ("DAB") and the Performance Share Plan
("PSP") were released to certain PDMRs. The Company stated that the vested
awards qualified for dividend equivalent shares relating to the 2011 final
dividend (record date 14 October 2011), which would not be released and
announced until after declaration of the final dividend at the Company's
Annual General Meeting, which was held yesterday, 9 November 2011.

The table below sets out the dividend equivalent shares released to the
PDMRs yesterday under the DAB and PSP following the declaration of the final
dividend, together with the number of shares sold at a price of 74.06 pence
per share to meet the tax liability on the dividend equivalent shares.

                              DIVIDEND           TOTAL
                          EQUIVALENT SHARES     SHARES    SHARES      SHARES
NAME                       (DAB)      (PSP)   RELEASED      SOLD    RETAINED

Alistair Cox*             32,470     14,361     46,831     24,403     22,428
Paul Venables*            11,471     10,354     21,825     11,373     10,452
Tim Cook                       0      6,268      6,268      3,266      3,002
Nick Cox                   2,450      7,225      9,675      5,042      4,633
James Cullens                  0      5,470      5,470      2,851      2,619
Sholto Douglas-Home        1,085      4,217      5,302      2,764      2,538
Nigel Heap                 6,059      6,654     12,713          0     12,713
Steve Weston                   0      6,268      6,268      3,266      3,002
Alison Yapp                1,862      4,786      6,648      3,465      3,183

* Denotes a director of the Company.

As a result of the above transactions, the directors' interests in the
Ordinary share capital of the Company (excluding share options and unvested
incentive shares but including shares held beneficially under deferred bonus
arrangements) now stand as follows:

Alistair Cox:  2,308,467 shares
Paul Venables: 1,506,961 shares

For further information in respect of this announcement please contact
Neil Tsappis, Deputy Company Secretary, Hays plc, [phone].

10 November 2011