"hidden benefit(s)" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an advantage that is not immediately clear or obvious. For example: "The hidden benefit of taking a job in a new city was that I was able to save money and make new friends."
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.
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.
And orienting around the customer has a hidden benefit: It creates a stronger internal culture.
Some analysts see hidden benefits in Warner Music's diminished role.
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Or the Administration will propose something that receives the universal approbation of respectable opinion and also fails to pass, but that actually has hidden benefits, such as distracting liberal attention from something else, or propitiating an important Republican interest group.
While packaging that comes from a recognised renewable resource (ie wood) is often seen as being more sustainable, there are hidden benefits from non-recyclable materials that consumers are unaware of.
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.
