Transaction in Own Shares

Hays PLC
26 May 2005


Hays plc

Purchase of own shares


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

Ordinary shares:

Date of purchase:                                    26 May 2005

Number of ordinary shares purchased:                     380,000

Highest price paid per share:                             124.5p

Lowest price paid per share:                                124p

Volume weighted average price paid per share:            124.27p

Hays intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the purchases of these shares, Hays holds 88,913,970 of its ordinary
shares in treasury and has 1,646,977,152 ordinary shares in issue (excluding
treasury shares).


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