SCHEDULE 13G
Amendment No. 0
Modis Professional Services Incorporated
common stock
Cusip # 607830106
Cusip # 607830106
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR Corp.
Item 4: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 5: 123,900
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 6,466,251
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 6,466,251
Item 11: 5.78%
Item 12: HC
Cusip # 607830106
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 6,466,251
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 6,466,251
Item 11: 5.78%
Item 12: IN
Cusip # 607830106
Item 1: Reporting Person - Abigail P. Johnson
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: None
Item 6: None
Item 7: 6,466,251
Item 8: None
Item 9: 6,466,251
Item 11: 5.78%
Item 12: IN
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:
Modis Professional Services Incorporated
Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
1 Independent Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:
FMR Corp.
Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None,
Residence:
82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Item 2(c). Citizenship:
Not applicable
Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:
common stock
Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:
607830106
Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-
2(b) and the person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent
holding company in accordance with Section 240.13d-
1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See Item 7).
Item 4. Ownership
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned:
6,466,251
(b) Percent of Class:
5.78%
(c) Number of shares as to which such person has:
(i) sole power to vote or to direct the vote:
123,900
(ii) shared power to vote or to direct the vote:
0
(iii) sole power to dispose or to direct the
disposition of: 6,466,251
(iv) shared power to dispose or to direct the
disposition of: 0
Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a CommonStock.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person.
Various persons have the right to receive or the
power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or
the proceeds from the sale of, the common stock of
Modis Professional Services Incorporated. No one
person's interest in the common stock of Modis
Professional Services Incorporated is more than five
percent of the total outstanding common stock.
Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent
Holding Company.
See attached Exhibit(s) A, B.
Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of the
Group.
Not Applicable. See attached Exhibit A.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Certification.
By signing below I certify that, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, the securities referred to
above were acquired in the ordinary course of
business and were not acquired for the purpose of
and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such
securities and were not acquired in connection with
or as a participant in any transaction having such
purpose or effect.
Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my
knowledge and belief, I certify that the information
set forth in this Schedule 13G in connection with
FMR Corp.'s beneficial ownership of the common stock
of Modis Professional Services Incorporated at
December 31, 1998 is true, complete and correct.
April 10, 1999
Date
/s/Eric D. Roiter
Signature
Eric D. Roiter
Duly authorized under
Power of Attorney
dated December 30, 1997,
by and on behalf
of FMR Corp. and its
direct and indirect
subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G,
Fidelity Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 82
Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an investment adviser registered
under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, is the
beneficial owner of 6,275,390 shares or 5.61% of the common stock
outstanding of Modis Professional Services Incorporated ("the
Company") as a result of acting as investment adviser to various
investment companies registered under Section 8 of the Investment
Company Act of 1940.
Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its control of
Fidelity, and the funds each has sole power to dispose of the
6,275,390 shares owned by the Funds.
Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d, Chairman of FMR
Corp., has the sole power to vote or direct the voting of the
shares owned directly by the Fidelity Funds, which power resides
with the Funds' Boards of Trustees. Fidelity carries out the
voting of the shares under written guidelines established by the
Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity Management Trust Company, 82 Devonshire Street,
Boston, Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR
Corp. and a bank as defined in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, is the beneficial owner of 190,861 shares
or 0.17% of the common stock outstanding of the Company as a
result of its serving as investment manager of the institutional
account(s).
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its control of
Fidelity Management Trust Company, each has sole dispositive
power over 190,861 shares and sole power to vote or to direct the
voting of 123,900 shares, and no power to vote or to direct the
voting of 66,961 shares of common stock owned by the
institutional account(s) as reported above.
Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family are the
predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock of FMR
Corp., representing approximately 49% of the voting power of FMR
Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d owns 12.0% and Abigail Johnson owns 24.5%
of the aggregate outstanding voting stock of FMR Corp. Mr.
Johnson 3d is Chairman of FMR Corp. and Abigail P. Johnson is a
Director of FMR Corp. The Johnson family group and all other
Class B shareholders have entered into a shareholders' voting
agreement under which all Class B shares will be voted in
accordance with the majority vote of Class B shares.
Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common stock and
the execution of the shareholders' voting agreement, members of
the Johnson family may be deemed, under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, to form a controlling group with respect to FMR
Corp.
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
RULE 13d-1(f)(1) AGREEMENT
The undersigned persons, on April 10, 1999, agree and consent
to the joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule 13G in
connection with their beneficial ownership of the common stock of
Modis Professional Services Incorporated at December 31, 1998.
FMR Corp.
By /s/Eric D. Roiter
Eric D. Roiter
Duly authorized under Power of
Attorney
dated December 30, 1997, by and on
behalf
of FMR Corp. and its direct and
indirect
subsidiaries
Edward C. Johnson 3d
By /s/Eric D. Roiter
Eric D. Roiter
Duly authorized under Power of
Attorney
dated December 30, 1997, by and on
behalf
of Edward C. Johnson 3d
Abigail P. Johnson
By /s/Eric D. Roiter
Eric D. Roiter
Duly authorized under Power of
Attorney
dated December 30, 1997, by and on
behalf
of Abigail P. Johnson
Fidelity Management & Research
Company
By /s/Eric D. Roiter
Eric D. Roiter
V.P. and General Counsel
