Holding in Company

Hays PLC
15 October 2001


                                 SCHEDULE 10

                  NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1) Name of company

Hays plc

2) Name of shareholder having a major interest

The Capital Group Companies, Inc

3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

Discretionary investment management by:

Capital Research and Management Company

Capital Group International, Inc
and their subsidiaries

4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them

Capital Guardian Trust Company (26,237,549); Capital International Limited 
(9,174,762); Capital International S.A. (7,918,444); Capital International, Inc 
(3,996,200); Capital Research and Management Company (39,763,823)


5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

Not advised

6) Percentage of issued class

Not advised

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

Not advised

8) Percentage of issued class

Not advised

9) Class of security

Ordinary 1p shares

10) Date of transaction

Not advised

11) Date company informed

12 October 2001

12) Total holding following this notification

87,090,778

13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

5.02%

14) Any additional information



15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

S J Charnock

Group Secretary

01483 302203

16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification

S J Charnock

Group Secretary

Date of notification 15 October 2001