The thirst for share options fostered by the internet revolution yesterday prompted recruitment business

<="" p="">The share options will be granted to workers after they have completed at least 464 days employment through the company in the three years following February 9.

<="" p="">Spring intends to introduce a similar scheme for permanent staff being placed through the business later this year.

<="" p="">Mr Chapman conceded that some institutional investors faced with the dilution of their own holdings needed pursuading.

<="" p="">"We had to walk some people through it but the basic premise is 'do you want a bigger percentage or do you want your share to be worth more because the company is bigger?"

<="" p="">Spring.com will be integrated with the existing bricks and mortar business through a new call centre which will manage the scheme.

<="" p="">"We had built a jobs portal but wanted to go beyond that," said Mr Chapman.

<="" p="">"This is a real transition in our business.We were asking ourselves 'how can we go that extra mile?'

<="" p="">It is easy to replicate a bulletin-board type service, but the share options provide another dimension to what we are doing."

<="" p="">Spring claims to be the third largest IT recruitment consultancy behind Adecco and