Transaction in Own Shares and Total Voting Rights

Work Group plc (the "Company")

Transaction in Own Shares and Total Voting Rights

The Company announces that pursuant to an authority granted at its Annual General Meeting on 23 June 2010 it has today, 12 January 2011, purchased 673,335 of its own Ordinary Shares of 2 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 15.75 pence per share. The shares purchased are to be held in treasury.

As a result of the above purchase, the total number of Ordinary Shares held in treasury is 673,335 and the number of remaining Ordinary Shares in issue is 27,949,138. Therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is 27,949,138.

The above figure of 27,949,138 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interests in, the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

Julian Maslen

Finance Director

Telephone: 0161 927 5070