Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Hays PLC
24 July 2000

                                                                              
        Transfer of Shares in Satisfaction of Save As You Earn Options        
                                                                              
                            Hays plc (the Company)                            

The Company announces that on 24 July 2000 34,073  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
0.565                 11,476       £6,483.94
0.875                  8,902       £7,789.25
1.1025                11,312      £12,471.48
1.1025                 1,364       £1,503.81
1.94                     772       £1,497.68
2.765                    247         £682.96
              
                      34,073       £30,429.12


Following this transaction, the Trust holds 7,782,851 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.