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Studies about wellbeing on the workplace have shown that engagement, motivation and social capital affects and have significance for work satisfaction. The aim of the present study is to analyze the engagement on a bilingual (fi, swe) workplace, and to further explore the aspects that can be associated with it. The specific questions are how engaged, how internally motivated and how high the workers social capital is and also whether the intrinsic motivation and the social capital predict the engagement. The research questions are analyzed regarding to the sociodemographic variables: age, gender and educational level and other background variables: work experience, department, department language and position. Central theories in the present study are Self determination theory by R. Ryan and E. Deci and Herzberg's two-factor theory. The study was analyzed statistically and data was collected through an electronic survey in spring 2016. The survey consisted of questions from the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), Basic Psychological Needs Scale (BPNS), a Finnish measurement about the social capital and also some self formed questions based on the theories about social capital. The respondents also answered questions about their background and where given a chance to express their engagement. A total of 252 workers (33 %) answered the survey. The Software program IBM SPSS Statistics 22 was used for the analysis of the respondent's answers. The results of this study show that the employees experienced a high engagement, a high intrinsic motivation and a high social capital. Significant correlations and differences were found e.g. a higher engagement and a higher intrinsic motivation was experienced by the Finnish speaking workers. The age correlated positively and significantly with the experience of engagement and intrinsic motivation. In addition, the supervisors experienced a higher social capital. Furthermore the intrinsic motivation and the department language predicted the engagement. A correlation between the social capital and engagement was found, but the social capital didn't predict the engagement. The results were mostly in line with previous research on the field.