A receiving station in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) implements a method to initiate a change in a receive operating mode during a current transmission opportunity (TXOP) of a transmitting station. The method sends a receive operating mode change to the transmitting station, where the receive operating mode change requests changes to at least one receive operating mode parameter associated with at least one transmission from the transmitting station to the receiving station. The method further changes the at least one receive operating mode parameter based on the receive operating mode change, where the at least one receive operating mode parameter changes from higher receiver resource usage to lower receiver resource usage. Changing the at least one receive operating mode parameter occurs only after completion of the current TXOP when the at least one receive operating mode parameter changes from higher receiver resource usage to lower receiver resource usage.