Every Monday morning, millions of workers sit at their office desks and ponder how they can avoid doing the same thing next week.

Sure, teleworking has been talked about for years, but for the majority of office workers it remains an attractive yet distant dream.

But why does it have to be this way? The perfect storm of tech trends - mobility and cloud computing - are rapidly uncoupling the activity of work from the place in which it's done. In many cases there's nothing you can in the office that you couldn't do equally well at home, or in a hotel, or in a coffee shop.

Now some new research adds more fuel to the work-from-home fire. A report on teleworking trends in the US concludes that teleworking can save more than $US13,000 per year for every employee that adopts it.

Further more, according to the report, national productivity could be increased by more than $466 billion annually if the 50 million potential teleworkers in the US actually worked from home. That's an impressive number.

Now sure, the research is US based, but there's nothing to indicate that big savings and benefits couldn't also be achieved in this country.

Getting more Australians to stay home and work has never been technically easier and could bring about big benefits - both for individuals and society at large.

When was the last time you spoke to your boss about working from home?