ADECCO OFFER FOR JOBPILOT CLOSES

Cheserex, Switzerland/ Bad Homburg, Germany, May 22, 2002 Adecco SA (Swiss Stock Exchange - ADEN/ trading on Virt-x: 1213860), the world''s leading provider of personnel services, today announced that the period of its offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding share
capital of jobpilot AG (Frankfurt Neuer Markt - WKN 514 170, JOA) has now closed. At the closure deadline (midday, 10th May 2002), more than 93% of jobpilot shareholders had accepted the offer. All relevant regulatory approval had already been granted in April 2002.

According to Adecco Group CFO Felix Weber, We are very pleased that our offer met with such strong approval from jobpilot''s shareholders. They clearly recognize the potential of combining jobpilot''s internet platform with the branch network of Adecco, thereby bringing together
at a stroke the world''s largest branch network on the one hand, and jobpilot''s leading international internet recruitment platform on the other.

Dr. Roland Metzger, CEO and founder of jobpilot, said: The
integration process will now gain even more momentum. And with the new e-HR & Executive Search division and its online and offline recruitment services Adecco will be in place with the right answers to the needs of this growing market.

Credit Suisse First Boston acted as financial advisor to Adecco. J.P.Morgan acted as financial advisor to jobpilot.


Dr. Metzger new President e-HR & Executive Search Europe

Dr. Roland Metzger, founder and CEO of jobpilot, has agreed to become President of the newly formed e-HR & Executive Search division. In this function he will also be a member of the Management Team of the Adecco Group.