Director/PDMR Shareholding

Hays PLC
30 August 2005



Transfer of Shares in Satisfaction of Save As You Earn Options


Hays plc (the Company)


The Company announces that on 30 August 2005 14,294 ordinary shares in the
Company (Shares) were transferred to employees of the Hays Group by the Hays
Share Scheme Trustee Limited (the Trust) in satisfaction of options held by them
under the Hays plc UK Sharesave Scheme (the scheme).



The transfer value of the aforementioned shares is as follows: -


Option Price £         Number of Shares        Transfer Value

1.0900                   14,294                 15,580.46

                         14,294                 15,580.46


Following this transaction, the Trust holds 450,993 Shares.



The Trust is a discretionary trust under which all employees of the Hays Group
are potential beneficiaries.  Each of the Executive Directors of the Company is
for Company Act purposes regarded as interested in all of these Shares.  Despite
the technical interest in all the Shares each Executive Director will only be
entitled to receive from the Trust the number of Shares to which he is entitled
on exercise of an option held by him under the scheme.


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