Directors' Dealings

HAYS PLC
20 August 1999


           Transfer of Shares in Satisfaction of Save
                     As You Earn Options

                     Hays plc (the Company)

The Company announces that on 19 August 1999 40,804 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 Company further announces that on 20 August 1999 4,447 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
          
           £1.13               1,129                £1,275.77
           £1.75              43,032               £75,306.00
          £2.205                 585                £1,289.93
           £3.88                 505                £1,959.40
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                              45,251               £79,831.10
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Following this transaction, the Trust holds 4,797,774 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 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.

Name of contact and telephone number for enquiries:  
Mrs A C Adams   01483 302203