The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of motivation and communication on work performed at the Aceh Agriculture and Plantation Office. The benefits of this study are to be able to provide a study of knowledge about the influence of motivation and communication on employee work performance for further research, to enrich scientific information, especially those related to motivation, communication and employee performance and as input for Aceh Agriculture and Plantation Office in making decisions for improving employee work performance by considering motivation and communication. The populations in this study were employees at the Office of Agriculture and Plantation of Aceh with a total of 430 employees so that the sample in this study amounted to 81 respondents, the authors used the Slovin formula as a tool to calculate sample size in this study. Simultaneous results of research on motivation and communication have a significant effect on employee work performance, said to be significant because F count 7.565 is greater than F table of 2.329. Partially the t value of the motivation variable has a significant effect on work performance because t arithmetic shows a number of 2.630 greater with a t table of 1.990. Partially the value of t count communication variable has a significant effect on work performance because t count shows a number of 3.778 greater than the value of t table of 1.990. The correlation coefficient (R) shows a value of 0.403 which indicates that the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable is positive because it has a value of R> 0.5. The R2 value of 0.662 shows that only 66.2% of the variation of the dependent variable (work performance) can be explained by variations in the independent variables (motivation and communication) in this study. While the remaining 33.8% is explained by other variables that are not included in research that might affect work performance.