Transaction in Own Shares

Hays PLC
28 April 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:                                           28 April 2005



Number of ordinary shares purchased:                          6,842,667




Highest price paid per share:                                132p



Lowest price paid per share:                                 129.5p



Volume weighted average price per share:                     130.5841p



Hays intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.



Following the purchase of these shares, Hays holds 71,269,952 of its ordinary
shares in treasury and has 1,664,621,170 ordinary shares in issue (excluding
treasury shares).




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