Employee engagement represents one of the bigger challenges for today's companies. Employers are always searching for a way to encourage their employees to try harder while performing their business assignments, that they are not only physically but also mentally present while performing their business roles, that they are involved, efficient and enthusiastic on their workplace. One of the ways of achieving the aforementioned goals is through benefits. Benefits represent a kind of privilege for employees which can, provided they meet the overall employee’s needs, influence the employee’s engagement to a great extent. The purpose of this paper was to discover the roles of benefits in encouraging employee engagement. For this purpose a research had been conducted through a survey questionnaire. Through the questionnaire the employees’ attitudes and opinions concerning benefits they received and their engagement was questioned and analysed. The biggest focus was upon the participants’ attitudes towards the cost of benefits they receive, the importance that employees give benefits, their satisfaction with benefits, the reasons why benefits were offered to them and their opinion about how much money their employer truly put aside for benefits. In addition, a big amount of attention was given to questioning engagement. Notwithstanding the fact that the connection between benefits and employee engagement was poorly researched, the research conducted in this paper showed that benefits truly have a meaningful role in encouraging employee engagement.