Employees are the core of ongoing organizational activities. In the industrial cycle, employees are coming from adjacent regions.Social support is needed to have motivation at work. Motivation to work will have an impact on work results. This study aims to analyze social support for employee performance with work motivation as an intervening variable in the shuttlecock industry in Pringgolayan Surakarta, Indonesia. Previous research shows that social support has an influence on employee motivation at work. Other studies explain that motivation can improve employee performance. This study uses a quantitative method with a sample of 100 respondents. The sample is determined by the purposive sampling method. Respondents are employees of the shuttlecock industry, who had worked for at least 3 mo.. This study uses SmartPLS 3.0 as a data analysis technique. The results of this study indicate that working conditions have a significant effect on work motivation, social support has a significant effect on work motivation and social support has a significant effect on employee performance. Research also shows that work motivation has a significant influence on employee performance. Work motivation among shuttlecock industry employees still needs to be improved so that its performance is improved. Aspects of social support are friends and superiors, for that the leadership must provide support to increase employee work motivation.