Bonus Issue - Share Split

Hays PLC
24 January 2000

Hays plc (the 'Company')
Bonus Issue


Today one new ordinary share has been issued for each ordinary share held by
shareholders on Friday, 21 January 2000.  This follows shareholder approval
of a Bonus Issue given at the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 17
January 2000.

In practice, this means that all shareholders now have twice the number of
shares that they held on Friday, 21 January and that the price of each share
will have initially lowered to half the closing share price on that day.

The result is that, at the start of today's trading, each shareholder has the
same percentage interest in the Company's share capital as was held on
Friday, 21 January.

S J Charnock
Group Secretary

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