Transaction in Own Shares

Hays PLC
29 March 2005

                                    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:                                29 March 2005

Number of ordinary shares purchased:             548,058

Highest price paid per share:                    135p

Lowest price paid per share:                     134.5p

Volume weighted average price per share:         134.917p


Hays intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the purchase of these shares, Hays holds 45,913,329 of its ordinary
shares in treasury and has 1,689,977,793 ordinary shares in issue (excluding
treasury shares).


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