The phrase "a hidden benefit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an advantage or positive aspect that is not immediately obvious or visible.
Example: "While the new policy may seem restrictive, it actually has a hidden benefit of improving employee morale."
Alternatives: "an unexpected advantage" or "a concealed advantage."
But Thursday's victory may have had a hidden benefit.
But the paper also raises hope that the present, increasingly hostile climate for housing finance may have a hidden benefit: mitigating a damaging distortion in the system.
ANGER can be a destructive force, but for Monica Seles, rage over an attempt on her life eight years ago had a hidden benefit.
Time hasn't lessened the frustration of what Knox still grumbles was a "lost season," but he does remember a hidden benefit.
And orienting around the customer has a hidden benefit: It creates a stronger internal culture.
As many are celebrating the impact these new overtime rules will have on their pay, few have recognized that the rules come with a hidden benefit for mothers: a right to break time and a private (non-bathroom) space to pump breast milk for their babies.
Think of this as the hidden benefit of an iPod generation where the tools and networks of the digital age really are blurring old lines, enabling a cultural convergence.
He would also spend many months with a "neckless administration", minus the vital middle ranks of his bureaucracy and therefore having to rely on Clinton holdovers for advice.There may be one hidden benefit to any such crisis, however.
But for Ms. Adamski and other young women (they are mostly women) in the glamorous world of New York's auction houses, the downturn has hidden benefits in the form of a social correction that puts them on more equal footing with their friends working — or formerly working — on Wall Street.
Some analysts see hidden benefits in Warner Music's diminished role.
Take This Parking Money, Please If highways have hidden benefits, could parking lots?
