Saw a Poll on LinkedIn About Marketing Hiring

I recently saw this poll question asked on LinkedIn by Scott Hample, an Onsite Consultant at the US Postal Service; "When will hiring in the Marketing sector return to pre-recession levels?" My thoughts are as follows:

Marketing automation and on-demand solutions will begin to take hold during this downturn and "people" resources might not be needed as much as in the past. Existing marketing mediums as we know them today are slowly being automated. As new marketing mediums evolve, the number of marketing executives might not increase, but the number of marketing enablers such as software developers and digital graphic designers will increase to meet the demand of this growth in marketing automation.

What do you think?