One of the key factors of human resource management is employee motivation. Often the question is how to motivate employees and thus contribute to the better functioning of the company. Motivation is the key to high business standards, encouraging creativity, development and innovation, professional development of employees and their retention in the company. Benefits influence on whether employees are going to come to work for the company, will they stay there, when are they going to retire, perhaps even on their success. According to what is specified above it can be concluded that different employees require different types of benefits. Although wet hink about benefits as part of total compensation, benefits have special characteristics. Promotion, status symbols, recognition, salaries and other material compensations are visible mechanisms for allocating specific awards and work evaluation within the policies and practices of each organization. Employees are often not aware of the benefits which can be used and, if so, often do not understand how to use them. The problem will occur when the employer invest or spend a large amount of money on benefits, and employees do not understand them or give them too much value. This paper emphasizes the importance of benefits today and attempts to show how they affect the motivation of each employee. Among all the other things this paper will explore which benefits motivate employees.