Director Shareholding

Hays PLC
16 November 2001


Date: 16 November 2001

Hays plc (the Company)

Notification of Directors' Interest in Shares

The Company announces that at a meeting held on 16 November 2001 the Board of
Directors of Hays Share Scheme Trustee Limited as Trustee of the Hays
Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the Trust) resolved to subscribe
for 794,223 ordinary shares in the Company (the Shares) at a price of 207.75p
per Share for the purposes of satisfying the exercise of options under the
Hays plc Savings-Related Share Option Scheme and Hays UK Sharesave Scheme (the
Schemes) in due course. On 16 November 2001 the Trust transferred £1,650,000
to the Company in respect of the Shares and at a meeting held on 16 November
2001 a Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company resolved to allot
the Shares to the Trust.

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 Schemes.


Name of contact and telephone number for enquiries: S J Charnock 01483 302203