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Hays part ways with their global CEO after another underwhelming half year

Ross Clennett
Mar 05, 2026
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The world’s sixth-largest staffing company, London-based Hays plc, last Friday announced that Dirk Hahn (pictured, right) had resigned as CEO and as a director, effective immediately, for personal reasons.

In a company that, over its near-six-decade history as a pure-play staffing business, had only two previous CEOs, this is a major shock.

Hahn, who star…

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