Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to power saving in discontinuous reception (DRX). An apparatus, such as a user equipment (UE), may receive configuration information for search space sets (SSSs). If one or more of the SSSs are associated with at least one SSS group (SSSG), then the UE may determine at least one SSS from each SSSG. The UE may detect downlink control information (DCI) in the at least one SSS, where the DCI includes a field indicating a power saving operation for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring, the DCI detected in the at least one SSS is determined from the set of the SSSs, and the DCI includes a field indicating a PDCCH skipping scheme.