Transaction in Own Shares

Hays PLC
21 August 2007

                                    Hays plc

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                             Purchase of own shares

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Hays plc announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary
shares of £0.01 each on the London Stock Exchange via UBS Investment Bank.



Ordinary shares:



Date of purchase:                                          21 August 2007


Number of ordinary shares purchased:                              190,000


Highest price paid per share:                                      149.25p



Lowest price paid per share:                                       147.50p



Volume weighted average price per share:                         148.4824p


Hays intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.


Following the purchase of these shares, Hays holds 123,024,991 of its ordinary
shares in treasury and has 1,441,071,575 ordinary shares in issue (excluding
treasury shares).




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