Director Shareholding

Hays PLC
29 June 2001


Transfer of Shares in Satisfaction of Save As You Earn Options

Hays plc (the Company)

The Company announces that on 29 June 2001, 12,893 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 Savings-Related Share Option Scheme (the Scheme).

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

Option Price              No. of Shares            Transfer Value
1.94                      12,308                     £23,877.52
2.765                        386                      £1,067.29
3.26                         199                        £648.74
              
                          12,893                     £25,593.55


Following this transaction, the Trust holds 7,151,925 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 Companies 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 any option held by him under the Scheme.