Abstract The Existence of Local Education Service of Parepare City is a spearhead in reached one of the Parepare City vision as the city of education. Therefore, this research aims to know the influence of physical work environment and motivation towards an employee performance of Local Education Service of Parepare City. The type of this research is a survey of associative, namely examining an association between physical work environment and excelled motivation towards an employee performance of Local Education Service of Parepare City. The population of this research is all the employees of Local Education Service of Parepare City, either civil servants or not that amounted to 110 people. The sampling is conducted with a method of stratified proportional random sampling thus taken 86 people as a sample, based on a table of Krejci. The results show that: Firstly, there are a positive influence and the significance of physical work environment toward the employee performance. Secondly, there are a positive influence and a significance of excelled motivation toward the employee performance. Thirdly, there are a positive influence and a significance between physical work environment and excelled motivation towards the employee performance. By those findings, the researchers suggest that the employee performance of Local Education Service of Parepare City increased, recommending: (1) required of improvement of physical work environment the office of Local Education Service of Parepare City, (2) required of several treatments toward the employees who can give rise to the excelled motivation, such as awarding gift or reward toward the excelled employee. Keywords: physical work environment, excelled motivation, employee performance