This document discusses how social media is impacting HR and employee engagement. It notes that social media has disrupted traditional ways of communicating and connecting as it allows everyone to have a voice and connect anywhere through mobile technology. This raises risks for companies in terms of inappropriate employee posts or backlash against companies, but also opportunities to leverage social media to enhance employer branding, recruiting, communication, collaboration and feedback. The document advocates that HR play a role in educating employees and developing guidelines around social media use, and that companies reinvent their workplaces and practices to better engage digital native employees and meet new social expectations around connectivity and flexibility.