In my experience sometimes this is true, sometimes it is not. In some cases when asking for more information it takes much longer. Some of the reasons: After a

In my experience sometimes this is true, sometimes it is not. In some cases when asking for more information it takes much longer. Some of the reasons: After asking the question I get a meeting schedules where design by committee happens. The story or bug your working on gets completely redesigned. Sometimes in an illogical way. Requiring more questions. When working remote, like most of us right now, now I will end up waiting for a long time to get a response. I then must start some other story/task/bug. Trying to context switch multiple complex tasks at some point your productivity slows down. I have also received criticism for asking when I could figure it out myself even when figuring it out may have taken hours more time then just asking a yes/no question.