How to designate a user is a contractor

[Dan W]

How do you designate a user is a contractor with company name in a way that is searchable in Jira.

We have a team that needs to run reports on distribution of work between contractors from company x and company y and our team members.  Previously they were able to accomplish this since the company name was added to the display name.  The display name standard was changed in our company and the display name no longer contains the company name.  

How do you keep track of your contractor accounts and the companies they work for?  In a way that is searchable in Jira?

[Dan W · Accepted solution]

The Identity team here would like to use the organization attribute.  From what I remember that is only available in the JSM projects.  Can anybody tell me if organization is available to be searched in Jira software projects?  Assignee in organization("org name")

[Kerli Loopman]

I did check with the JQL and it does find JSW projects issues too in search if I use assignee in organizationMembers("org name"). 

[Jack Brickey]

consider using Groups. Add the user to the 'contractor-grp'. Use the group in your filter, e.g.

assignee in membersOf("contractor-grp")

[Jack Brickey]

Organization is a JSM feature. The closest similar feature in JSW is groups.